Luan Thanh Nguyen

Luan Thanh Nguyen

Lecturer at UIT, VNU-HCM

I am presently serving as a lecturer at the University of Information Technology, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City.

  • As an undergraduate, I focused on social media text mining under the mentorship of Dr. Kiet Van Nguyen and Assoc. Prof. Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen.
  • During my master’s studies, I had the privilege of being supervised by Prof. Sakriani Sakti, where I delved into zero-resource speech processing and speech-to-speech translation. This work sparked a profound interest in linguistics and motivated me to explore this field further.

Currently, I am passionate about leveraging AI to preserve and revive endangered languages. Also, my research is centered on the automatic generation of data to address the challenges of limited resources.

🔥 News

  • 2024.08:  🎉🎉 I have started my role as a visiting scholar at HRL Laboratory under the guidance of Dr. Parisa Kordjamshidi at Michigan State University, USA!
  • 2024.06:  🎉🎉 Our paper “ViHateT5: Enhancing Hate Speech Detection in Vietnamese With A Unified Text-to-Text Transformer Model” has been accepted at ACL 2024 (Rank A*)!
  • 2024.03:  🎉🎉 I was selected by the USAID PHER Visiting Scholar Program to receive funding for a research visit to a US institute!

📝 Publications

Conferences

  • ViHateT5: Enhancing Hate Speech Detection in Vietnamese With A Unified Text-to-Text Transformer Model. Luan Thanh Nguyen. The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024) [Paper, GitHub, HuggingFace]

  • Gendec: A Machine Learning-Based Framework for Gender Detection from Japanese Names. Duong Tien Pham, Luan Thanh Nguyen. The International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2023) [Paper, HuggingFace]

  • VGSAlign: Bilingual Speech Alignment of Unpaired and Untranscribed Languages using Self-Supervised Visually Grounded Speech Models. Luan Thanh Nguyen, Sakriani Sakti. The 2nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL 2023) [Paper]

  • SMTCE: A Social Media Text Classification Evaluation Benchmark and BERTology Models for Vietnamese. Luan Thanh Nguyen, Kiet Van Nguyen, Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen. The 36th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 2022) [Paper]

  • SPBERTQA: A Two-Stage Question Answering System Based on Sentence Transformers for Medical Texts. Nhung Thi-Hong Nguyen, Phuong Phan-Dieu Ha, Luan Thanh Nguyen, Kiet Van Nguyen, and Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen. The 15th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2022) [Paper, Dataset]

  • SA2SL: From Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis to Social Listening System for Business Intelligence. Luong Luc Phan, Phuc Huynh Pham, Kim Thi-Thanh Nguyen, Sieu Khai Huynh, Tham Thi Nguyen, Luan Thanh Nguyen, Tin Van Huynh, and Kiet Van Nguyen. The 14th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2021) [Paper, GitHub & Dataset]

  • UIT-E10dot3 at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection with Named Entity Recognition and Question-Answering Approaches. Phu Gia Hoang, Luan Thanh Nguyen, and Kiet Van Nguyen. The 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021) [Paper]

  • Vietnamese Complaint Detection on E-Commerce Websites. Nhung Thi-Hong Nguyen, Phuong Phan-Dieu Ha, Luan Thanh Nguyen, Kiet Van Nguyen, and Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen. The 20th International Conference on New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT 2021) [Paper, Dataset]

  • Constructive and Toxic Speech Detection for Open-Domain Social Media Comments in Vietnamese. Luan Thanh Nguyen, Kiet Van Nguyen, and Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen. The 34th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2021) [Paper, GitHub, Dataset]

  • BANANA at WNUT-2020 Task 2: Identifying COVID-19 Information on Twitter by Combining Deep Learning and Transfer Learning Models. Tin Van Huynh, Luan Thanh Luan, and Son T. Luu. The Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2020) [Paper]

Journals

  • VLSP 2021-ViMRC Challenge: Vietnamese Machine Reading Comprehension. Kiet Van Nguyen, Son Quoc Tran, Luan Thanh Nguyen, Tin Van Huynh, Son T. Luu, Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen. VNU Journal of Science: Computer Science and Communication Engineering (Volume 38) [Paper, Website]

In-progress

  • CENSOR - Hide What You Don’t Like! End-to-End Audio-based Toxic Spans Detection. Luan Thanh Nguyen. (Under review)

  • ZeST: A Zero-resourced Speech-to-Speech Translation Approach for Unknown, Unpaired, and Untranscribed Languages. Sakriani Sakti, Luan Thanh Nguyen. (Under review)

🎖 Honors and Awards

📖 Educations

Master of Science in Information Science

  • Location: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Duration: 2021 - 2023
  • Thesis: Zero-resourced Speech-to-Speech Translation for Unpaired and Untranscribed Languages Based on Visually Grounded Self-Supervised Speech Models
  • Grade: 100/100
  • Supervisor: Prof. Sakriani Sakti
  • Awards:
    • “Outstanding Dedications and Contributions in Research” by HA3CI Laboratory, JAIST. 2023.

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

  • Location: University of Information Technology, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City
  • Duration: 2017 - 2021
  • Thesis: Constructive and Toxic Speech Detection for Open-domain Social Media Comments in Vietnamese
  • Grade: 9.9/10
  • Supervisor: Dr. Kiet Van Nguyen
  • Awards:
    • Valedictorian graduation (Top 1%).
    • “Best Thesis Defense Award” by The Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, UIT, VNU-HCM. 2021.

📚 Research Projects

  • 2024 - 2026: Textless Approaches To Vietnamese Direct Speech-To-Speech Translation. Principal Investigator. VNU-HCM Project (C2024-26-10). (In progress)

💻 Professional Experiences

  • 2024.08 - 2024.11: Visiting Scholar at HRL Laboratory, Michigan State University. USA.
  • 2024.04 - Present: Lecturer at UIT, VNU-HCM. Vietnam.
  • 2022.10 - 2023.09: Laboratory Assistant at HA3CI Laboratory, JAIST. Japan.
  • 2021.10 - 2024.03: Teaching Assistant at UIT, VNU-HCM. Vietnam.
  • 2020.09 - 2021.06: Student Teaching Assistant at UIT, VNU-HCM. Vietnam.
  • 2020.03: Short-term Exchange Student at Saga University. Japan.